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WOODSTOCK..August 15 1969....44yrs AGO

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beana51

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Most every body I know says they were there..Of Course it was only 4000 thousand,not 400 million who were..I was there,not on Yasgars filed,but I had a small farm 3miles from this site..So In essence I Was There.Will never forget it. Being much older ,We thought this was the end of the world..Pot Heads ,Hippys,Freaki looking people..all over the place.They were in my barns,fields.all over..all painted up long hair,stoned.My wife then felt sorry for them,gave them Peanut and Butter Sandwich's and Cold Milk..They were in my Brook all Naked.and just having a wild time.1969 was a terrible year,Nam,Charlie Manson,Both Bobby Kennedy,and King recently killed.One thing however ,trumped all,tho lost in the quagmire then ,was Neil Armstrong..MAN ON THE MOON...Our little town,Bethel NY was now the center of the universe..and we locals , We Woodchucks Hated it..But Thats history now.To day that site is a beautiful concert center...now 44 yrs later...All those kids now old geezers,Gray,baldy, Pony tails,pot bellied,the sweet chicks,now fat butt old ladies. Yet They Come,to the site,Misty Eyed,Old Tie Down Rags,To the Scene of The Crime...and Remember...The Smell of Pot still is on thatAlfalfa field....Vin PEACE AND LOVE DUDE!!



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Woodstock

Well, I wasn't there, but I watched the reports of it via Walter Cronkite on the CBS evening news during its run. I've got to admit that while the music sounded great, I'm glad I wasn't there. It looked like a mess to me.

As Walter Cronkite said following his broadcast that summer of 1969:

"And that's the way it is this August 16, 1969."
 
i was 7yo,so i wasnt there,plus ive never been over to that side of the US.....but as an adult...the idea of being neked in the creak with a bunch of strangers would have been alot of fun to me when i was in my so...not now.....but the music and drugs would have run me off....lol
 
Well I tell you square guys ...I was 37ys old the..But if I were 19 yrs old or so??? Man I would have jumped right in."PEACE AND LOVE BABY".and there was lots of that!!.However Then? Old Guys like me? with Kids? Family? Found it to be madness!....But in retro spect it really was not...Those kids were peacful,friendly,endured mud and rain, no food,latrines, medical, and for them then..in a world upside down they found.something.basic .each other!

However we Woodchucks Then wanted no part of this..and for years we spread Manure on that field...But Like I say ,Today Its a World Class Entertainment center We know most all those kids on that stage then died of over dose with drugs...this while Kids in Nam were getting killed also..With Charlie Manson,The Hippy movement died down,along with the anti war riots..In the end It was a World Historical Event.now 44yrs ago!...Vin


PS I flew a guy over the site ..he took pictures..wish I had some...But shortly later ,this pot head killed himself ..OD on drugs!
 
My cousin/partner-in-crime left Los Angeles on the 7TH of August in 1969 in his 1965 VW microbus headed east thinking we would be in upstate NY in plenty of time for the festival......made it to Tucumcari,New Mexico and the old bus shot a rod out the bottom of the block.....spent the next week trying to get it fixed so we could get it back to L.A.......missed the whole thing......:pop4:
 
What a summer !! Man on the moon and Woodstock !! I was at Ft. Sam learning everything from pulling teeth to taking water buffalo temps.......
 
Most of my "Summer of Love" was spent getting ready for our next deployment aboard USS Coral Sea. Somebody had to be doing that military stuff while everybody else smoked dope and banged hippie chicks. :icon_lol:
 
I was in Phu Bai... RVN

TARPSBird said:
Most of my "Summer of Love" was spent getting ready for our next deployment aboard USS Coral Sea. Somebody had to be doing that military stuff while everybody else smoked dope and banged hippie chicks. :icon_lol:
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and even the landing on the Moon... I had to wait till the next April to see it on TV reruns and documentaries...
We finally got AFN TV just about the time I was leaving... we were still on generators that summer...
then one morning I was disconcerted by the silence.. but could not figure out what was different... till someone
said... the generators are off... we are getting real electric power from Hue... pretty soon we'll get TV too... wowiee...Up until then we had only 16 mm
movies at the officer's club hooch... and the occasional 8mm porno in some enlisted hooch... wall to wall folks there...
 
Yes That was the real message with that Age Of Aquarius.....Anarchy!..Riots..Drugs Frisco...Rabel rousers..Like Pide Pipers from Hell leading kids into mental bondage....I recall my younger brother,coming home from Nam then,in uniform ,at the Air Port being confronted by these anti War slime,Baby Killer,Spat on The Slime did!...He was totally demolished by the incident.What battle did not do,these Hippys did. Did not put his uniform on again ..I 'am older than some here,I remember what transpired in our country.Ever wonder why our leaders do what they do? They are the Hippys of old.While I'am at it offending some,Ask me if I like Rock and Roll...
 
Country Joe and the Fish!!!!!! Give me an F - F ........ Give me ..... and so on! :) Great music. Best people playing EVER.

Don
 
beana51 said:
I recall my younger brother,coming home from Nam then,in uniform ,at the Air Port being confronted by these anti War slime,Baby Killer,Spat on The Slime did!...He was totally demolished by the incident.What battle did not do,these Hippys did.
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I spent most of my time assigned to a maintenance battalion in Camp Hovey/Camp Casey, Korea...

...yet even so encountered the same treatment as your baby brother did upon my return to CONUS. It didn't matter a bit to these air-headed space cadets that I was never in 'Nam, only that I was in the U.S. Army.
 
I caught my share of grief when I came home from the Nam too; but... let's remember that the thread isn't about that. It's just about three days in 1969. Let's not read anymore into it than that.
 
Jagdflieger said:
I caught my share of grief when I came home from the Nam too; but... let's remember that the thread isn't about that. It's just about three days in 1969. Let's not read anymore into it than that.
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Well said.....
And thanks for your service guys.....
 
Yes Well Said Guys,Just three days in ones life..It was the most tumultuous of times.I was there,I remember most was the"MAN ON THE MOON".I felt for my kid brother as we at home felt for all the Kids then..Events have connections,part of the Mosaic of ones life It has consequences!..Most celebrate both..the Good and the bad..Most however never forget! Some choose not to remember..and thats OK!
 
Yes, it was a tumultuous time. One thing is certain, though... music was definitely an escape for many of the soldiers in country during that time. Woodstock (both the music and the event) had an undeniable impact on the fabric of American society for decades, and is still being felt today.

BTW...both of my brothers served in 'Nam; one as a medic with the 25th Infantry,the other with the 4/60 Arty., I Field Force .

:salute:
 
I guess my post VN experience was different..

ViperPilot2 said:
Yes, it was a tumultuous time. One thing is certain, though... music was definitely an escape for many of the soldiers in country during that time. Woodstock (both the music and the event) had an undeniable impact on the fabric of American society for decades, and is still being felt today.

BTW...both of my brothers served in 'Nam; one as a medic with the 25th Infantry,the other with the 4/60 Arty., I Field Force .

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As a fairly new Captain, I came back from Nam to an assignment on the staff at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii...
and the folks there were always nice... I spent my R&R there too... and the next 3 years...
Used to go to work on shorts and tank tops... tooling around on a Fiat 850 spider... hardly ever wore khakis... except at work
but, really, locals in Hawaii always showed recognition for one's service and a great spirit of Aloha...
Before going to Hawaii... spent a month in DeKalb, Ill. where my late wife was waiting for me... and everybody was nice there too...
Actually, never went through San Francisco or Oakland.. from RVN went to Osaka, Japan for the world's Expo 70... and saw the moon rocks..
and since I got a ride back courtesy of a MAC C-141... never went through a line of peaceniks... by the time I returned to Valley Forge Gen..
the effervescence of anti-war crap was pretty much over... and a year later Nixon did away with the draft... in my opinion... a sad mistake
to humor the protesting draft dodgers...
I feel sorry for the really young men who did their duty and got crap from the masses in return...
Probably one of the best years in my life... glad to serve and enormously enriched by the experience... so much so.. I finally retired in 1984...
 
Thats True Viper Pilot...When first I seen Those Liverpool Warf Rats On The Ed Sullivan Show,Their American Debut..I thought ALLES KAPUT...Long Haired Freaky Looking..Boy Were We Wrong We in that other generation,..Yes Music always calmed the savage beast..other times other music..We were still coming out of the Big Band Era,,Glenn Miller ,Tommy Dorsey,and all.Over the many years the "NEW" songs stuck..Songs did survive their authors and performers...For it was not only music ,but as we know Drugs..Could have been Booze,but it was Drugs...now all part of the American Fabric..For better or worse..For My Friends As this song says it well..We Are Dust In The Wind! For some sooner,others a little later...ROTSARERUCK!..Vin

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